blunt vs nasal

blunt

adj
  • Having a thick edge or point; not sharp. 

  • Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. 

  • Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute. 

  • Hard to impress or penetrate. 

  • Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive. 

verb
  • To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. 

  • To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of 

noun
  • A marijuana cigar. 

  • A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave. 

  • A short needle with a strong point. 

  • A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. 

nasal

adj
  • Sharp, penetrating. 

  • Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion. 

  • Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng. 

  • Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage. 

noun
  • The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard. 

  • A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc. 

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